Fembusters (Ghostbusters 2016) Review: Dissecting a Trainwreck

After months of endless online leaks, rumors, and speculation the highly contrversial reboot/remake/rehash of Ghostbusters is finally here. And much to LaughingMan and CineMax’s surprise, it’s actually a fairly competent comedy that pays homage to the original all the while creating a unique, distinct identity for itself. Guess Paul Fieg was right all along. We should’ve given his movie a chance as opposed to jumping the gun and hurling insults at Sony.

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NAH, JUST MESSING WITH YOU! As predicted, the movie is a total mess. So, join everyone’s favorite cynical duo as they dissect exactly what makes Ghostbusters 2016 unwatchable.

The loveable lunatic with the foul mouth and the iconic laugh, Laughingman is the founder of CCS. With more coffee than copper in his bloodstream, he's a full-time website developer by day, and a gamer, editor, and fiction writer by night.

A subversive excommunicated from [REDACTED] as a result of a failed coup d'etat, CineMax has miraculously managed to reach and find asylum in the Land of the Free. Here he spends his days working for Cheshire Cat Studios, all the while plotting his inevitable return to the motherland to once again foment the flames of revolution.

Of course, why do you think I was intrigued by the development controversies on Fantastic 4 and this one? Cause it shows how much artistic integrity is getting spitted on my assholes who want to cash in on brands or fill up notorious agendas.

Well, I think there’s a lot of darts being thrown at the board, and only a few that have credit get promoted. There’s no doubt people leaking info, but I imagine it’s an issue of wading through a lot of shit to find it.

This is exactly what happened to Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch with his original script supposedly being more coherent and stable than his final draft while filming the film but for some reason, WB & the MPAA went full censorship on his project with Snyder forced to remove many crucial scenes to appeal to the studios for a PG-13 film. While he tried to restore his vision with a Director’s Cut including saving the crucial extended ending, the 17 minutes couldn’t save his project and there’s been rumors that the studio still has the original cut of Sucker Punch hiding behind his back. It’s this kind of behavior that pisses my nerves to a bloody pulp: The fact that studios are using predatory tactics on filmmakers and forcing them to turn their projects into soulless projections that do nothing for you but will keep audiences distracted cause they are too apathetic to care and yes, while this isn’t always the case with all movies, the fact that it exists brings me enough concern for the future of the film industry all together.

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